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Date Posted: 15:28:01 08/20/03 Wed
Author: Stacey Hull (Brody)
Author Host/IP: cache-rl02.proxy.aol.com / 152.163.252.226
Subject: Re: Canarsie HS Article
In reply to: Mike Lawrence 's message, "Canarsie HS Article" on 05:04:38 06/25/03 Wed

What has happened to our school? I have such good memories.

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[> IT GOT MONK-TOE-FIED -- PLEASE MAKE A NOTE OF IT, 15:24:42 07/29/04 Thu (cache-rr08.proxy.aol.com/152.163.253.104)

>I am so happy my dad retired from Canarsie HS last
>year.
>
>Canarsie HS is not what it used to be.
>
>This is an article from Brooklyn Skyline Newspaper.
>
>June 9. 2003
>By Jesse Serwer
>
>A rampant drug problem, incorrect textbooks, students
>assaulting teachers, and even a school staffer who
>offered students money to fight an assistant principal
>— this is the everyday reality of Canarsie High
>School, according to a group of parents calling for
>the ouster of the school’s principal.
>
>They say they’ve been getting the run-around from
>Principal Joel Shapiro for months, but now a group of
>concerned parents at the school has found an open ear
>with Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, who launched a
>probe into the troubled school last week.
>
>Although they say there are numerous problems that
>need to be rectified immediately, Canarsie Concerned
>Parents’ John Inniss and Ade Oluwo went to the
>chancellor with two demands — give us a new principal,
>and bring back a popular guidance counselor who was
>suspended, they say, for doing a good job.
>
>“We have 21 issues that we have identified in the
>school but we are pushing these two,” said Ade Oluwo
>of East Flatbush, who got involved in school affairs
>after attending a PTA meeting where the principal
>brushed off drugs as a non-issue in the school,
>despite repeated complaints from parents.
>
>“He downplayed the drug issue like it is nothing,”
>Oluwo said.
>
>“This principal really doesn’t care,” agreed John
>Inniss, whose son was beat up in his second month at
>the school this past October. “He hasn’t addressed a
>single issue we have brought to him since October. The
>69th Precinct brought in extra patrols so there is
>movement on the outside but nothing is happening
>inside of the school.”
>
>After growing frustrated with the principal-controlled
>PTA, the two decided to take matters into their own
>hands, recruiting other parents, distributing a
>newsletter and creating a web site
>(www.canarsiecp.com/johninniss) to document issues
>within the school.
>
>“We started finding out all kinds of things, from
>teachers selling candy in the classroom during
>lectures to the principal locking parents out from the
>process where assistant principals are hired,” Inniss
>said. “We identify problems. We’re not paid to do this
>— but the principal, that is his job.”
>
>The 69th Precinct is currently investigating an
>incident involving a male dean who allegedly offered
>two female students $500 to attack the school’s female
>Assistant Principal of Security.
>
>Inniss said his son’s science teacher told him he was
>hit by students on two occasions in the past year. The
>student body president was not suspended after being
>caught with marijuana inside the school. The school
>ranks second citywide in drug arrests, according to
>statistics compiled by the 69th Precinct. And the
>recent suicide of a student was not addressed by the
>administration.
>
>Inniss said he also became frustrated when he learned
>that students in the same class often have as many as
>three completely different textbooks — a fact he
>learned after his son spent days studying for a test,
>only to earn a 65.
>
>“We started comparing Canarsie with other schools we
>thought had a lot of problems and we were shocked at
>what we found,” said Oluwo, who last month was elected
>as the school’s new PTA president. According to
>statistics obtained from the Department of Education,
>Canarsie is performing lower than historically
>low-performing Boys and Girls High School in nearly
>every category. Oluwo said he also learned that nearly
>600 students - roughly 25 percent of the school’s
>population — take four years just to complete the 9th
>grade. The most recent statistics released by the
>Department of Education indicate that Canarsie placed
>well above similar schools in the number of crimes
>reported (12, compared to 4) and the number of major
>crimes (2 to 1) per 1,000 students.
>
>“There is clearly a problem here,” said Councilman
>Lewis Fidler (D-Canarsie). “Whether the (parents) are
>right or not with the substance of their argument,
>there is a serious disconnect between the
>administration and the parent leadership that has
>gotten way out-of-hand. You can’t blame that on the
>parents.”
>
>State Senator John Sampson agreed, but added that
>parents needed to be more cooperative with the present
>administration if any change was to be effected.
>
>“There really was a miscommunication between the
>administration and parents,” Sampson said. “The focus
>of educating and providing resources to our children
>was lost in a clash of personality differences.”
>
>Parents and students alike, meanwhile, are miffed at
>the dismissal of popular guidance counselor Jacqueline
>Cody, who was suspended after the administration
>claimed she acted improperly in flushing a confiscated
>bag of marijuana down the toilet.
>
>Inniss said that Cody, who would stay at the school
>well into the evening to meet with working parents,
>was so popular that there have even been student
>walk-outs in protest of her suspension.
>
>“There are a lot of inadequate educators in this
>school and this is the person that he pulls out of the
>school — right before graduation and right after a
>suicide,” he said.
>
>After meeting with Commissioner Klein at a Brooklyn
>Borough board meeting last week, Fidler commented that
>he felt the probe into Canarsie would see a swift
>resolution.
>
>“Chancellor Klein is aware of parents’ concerns and
>the department will follow-up,” said a Department of
>Education spokesman.


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